Natural Star Nani is trying to gradually change his image from being a MCA - middle class Abbayi to mass hero. He is trying different roles so that he won't be restricted at all in choosing scripts.
Also, he is trying to improve his image, market as well. As versatile as you can be as many audiences would show interest in watching your various movies and as big, wider your market will grow.
Senior stars did the same thing after understanding that like Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Nandamuri Taraka Ramarao, Krishna, Sobhan Babu they cannot stick major one or two genres and try different scripts once in a while.
Chiranjeevi, Balakrishna, Nagarjuna and Venkatesh had to reinvent themselves every 5 years as times have changed with new generation emerging.
Now, the actors go for dual role films more often to play the senior character and younger one also, for balancing out their actual age and fan expectations. Balakrishna has been following this formula more often than others.
In Legend, Simha and Akhanda, the actor decided to do one role that does the fan stuff and another that director really wants to show him in. This formula is now being adapted by Natural Star too.
As people love to see him in younger brother or "common man/neighborhood boy" roles, he decided to mix it up. When he tried to shed off that "neighborhood boy" image, it did not work for him as well as he hoped in V and Tuck Jagadish.
Hence, in Shyam Singha Roy, he is mixing it up. He will be seen as known neighborhood boy like he usual seen in struggling director role and then he will be seen as a mass hero in a larger than life character as Shayam Singha Roy.
If this formula works for the actor as much as he and his director Rahul Sankrityan believing it did or does, we will be in for more multiple role films from the actor from here on.
Also, he is trying to improve his image, market as well. As versatile as you can be as many audiences would show interest in watching your various movies and as big, wider your market will grow.
Senior stars did the same thing after understanding that like Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Nandamuri Taraka Ramarao, Krishna, Sobhan Babu they cannot stick major one or two genres and try different scripts once in a while.
Chiranjeevi, Balakrishna, Nagarjuna and Venkatesh had to reinvent themselves every 5 years as times have changed with new generation emerging.
Now, the actors go for dual role films more often to play the senior character and younger one also, for balancing out their actual age and fan expectations. Balakrishna has been following this formula more often than others.
In Legend, Simha and Akhanda, the actor decided to do one role that does the fan stuff and another that director really wants to show him in. This formula is now being adapted by Natural Star too.
As people love to see him in younger brother or "common man/neighborhood boy" roles, he decided to mix it up. When he tried to shed off that "neighborhood boy" image, it did not work for him as well as he hoped in V and Tuck Jagadish.
Hence, in Shyam Singha Roy, he is mixing it up. He will be seen as known neighborhood boy like he usual seen in struggling director role and then he will be seen as a mass hero in a larger than life character as Shayam Singha Roy.
If this formula works for the actor as much as he and his director Rahul Sankrityan believing it did or does, we will be in for more multiple role films from the actor from here on.